Farida Mahomed

Mahomed was born on 2 February 1955.{{cite magazine |date=11 June 1999 |title=General Notice: Notice 1319 of 1999 – Electoral Commission: Representatives Elected to the Various Legislatures |url=https://gazettes.africa/archive/za/1999/za-government-gazette-dated-1999-06-11-no-20203.pdf |magazine=Government Gazette of South Africa |location=Pretoria, South Africa |publisher=Government of South Africa |volume=408 |issue=20203 |pages= |access-date=26 March 2021}}

Mahomed was not initially elected to Parliament in the 1994 general election,{{Cite book |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/13429370/south-africa-campaign-and-election-report-april-26- |title=South Africa: Campaign and Election Report April 26–29, 1994 |publisher=International Republican Institute |year=1994 |access-date=13 April 2023 |via=Yumpu}} but she joined the caucus during the legislative term, in 1996, to fill a casual vacancy.{{Cite web |date=1998-06-03 |title=Members of the National Assembly |url=http://www.parliament.gov.za/mps/mps.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980628034746/http://www.parliament.gov.za/mps/mps.html |archive-date=1998-06-28 |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=Parliament of South Africa}} She served three consecutive terms in the seat, gaining election to full terms in 1999 and 2004.{{cite magazine |date=20 April 2004 |title=General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004 |url=https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/262770.pdf |magazine=Government Gazette of South Africa |location=Pretoria, South Africa |publisher=Government of South Africa |volume=466 |issue=2677 |pages=4–95 |access-date=26 March 2021}} She was a member of the project committee on Muslim personal law established by the Law Commission to draft the Muslim Marriages Bill.{{Cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=Eve Mullen, Gordon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aeI06FGSGmoC&q=farida+mahomed+ANC |title=Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa |last2=Mitchell |first2=Gordon |date=2002 |publisher=Waxmann Verlag |isbn=978-3-8309-6148-2 |pages=128 |language=en}}

In the 2009 general election, Mahomed was not initially re-elected to her seat. However, she returned on 15 August 2013, when she was sworn in to the assembly to fill the casual vacancy arising from Loretta Jacobus's resignation.{{Cite web |title=Members of the National Assembly |url=http://www.pmg.org.za/node/30336 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209085913/http://www.pmg.org.za/node/30336 |archive-date=9 February 2014 |access-date=2 March 2023 |website=Parliamentary Monitoring Group}} In the general election the next year, she was ranked 35th on the ANC's regional party list for Gauteng and she again lost her seat.{{Cite web |title=Farida Mahomed |url=http://www.pa.org.za/person/farida-mahomed/ |access-date=2023-05-13 |website=People's Assembly |language=en}}

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